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Intro
-Most celebrated period in Western art time when artsflourished particularly in southern Europe-ideas transmitted aroundEurope-revival of faithful reproduction of world of visual appearances-centralimportance was to convey message of church
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- Figure 14-1
- Giotto, Lamentation, c. 1305
- -Part of a series of Fresco’s that Giotta painted. Painted the
- life of Christ and the life of Mary. Giotto brought the ability to bring
- solidity of form and more 3 dimensional look. Moving away from the early
- Christian style which was flat. Ability to convey emotions and tell a story.
- -giotto-lamentation-seems medieval, part of series of fresco
- painted in chapel in Padua life of Christ and life of mary-final episodes in
- life of Christ, theater set actors on a stage-acting out in sort of
- pantomime-stonger solidity of form 3d look towards figures move away from
- looking flat, more naturalistic through gesture posture facial expressions
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- Figure 14-3
- Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1402
- -Humanism-study of the art of the history,
- -Winner of the comptition. Biblical story. The reason why it won was because of
- the revival of classic form; greek art.
- -ghiberti makrs beginning of renaissance acted as catalysts
- to renaissance period-scholarly efforts looks back to writers scholars of
- classical period
- -humanistic studies-catalystic studies of art, history,
- philosophy, sciences in effort to take a new look at ancient scholarship-created
- a revival especially in arts
- -competition in city of Florence-bronze doors of baptistery
- public comp selected best of best-ghiberti winner –nude figure of Isaac
- beautifully produced, elegance story telling
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- Figure 14-4
- Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of the Florence Cathedral, 1430-1436
- -dome-florence filippo brunelleschi making a study in rome
- of ancient architecture using knowledge able to complete cathedral and build
- massive dome-invented 1 pt meter perspective
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- Figure 14-6
- Donatello, David, c. 1428-1432
- -donatello-david earliest first free standing life size male
- nude cast in bronze
- -The first free standing male nude
- lifesize cast in bronze since the ancient period. Another revival of the classical choros form.
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- Figure 14-9
- Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1482
- -boticelli- la nascita di venere- one aspect of humanistic
- studies looking to past for inspiration and human nature-neoplatonic academy
- intellectuals looking back to works of plato and Socrates rereading and
- reinterpreting-directly related to ideas venus goddess of love and
- beauty-illusion to Christian rights such as baptism
-botticelli more original
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- Figure 14-13
- Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin of the Rocks, c. 1485
- -Marked by full understanding realiztion of techniques create
- more realistic symbolic effects
- -Madonna on the rocks-sfumato kind of lighting effect light
- comes from inside of figures themselves Leonardo able to achieve made him so
- sought after clarity logic tried to achieve
- -Strange kind of painting. He used the style known as Sfumato
- (sp), a lighting effect. Quality
- which Leonardo was able to achieve.
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- Figure 14-14
- Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, c. 1495-1498
- -Produced while Leonardo was living in Milan-damaged fresco
- the last supper-
- -Clear cut space in banquet hall merges with actual space of
- room that it was in
- -Don’t use halos tried to be faithful to world around them create 1pt linear perspective make stable form
- right in middle of work-lining up of table of foreground
-Leonardo added psychological dimension-shows us dym
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- Figure 14-16
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, David, 1501-1504
- -michelangelo’s forte was sculpture. First colossal free
- standing male nude carved in marble. First of its kind since the ancient classical period.
- Considered a masterpiece. Done when the artist was barely 21 years old.
- -Michelangleos david-sculpture-marks a first-first colossal
- freestanding male nude carved in marble over 13ft first of its kind since
- ancient
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- Figure 14-17
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Rome, 1508-1512
- -Michelangelo best known for his painting-ceiling of Sistine
- chapel took him 4 years to do work strictly high renaissance in nature=create
- scenes from old testament based around architecture-nude male figures with medallions
- interspersed through entire composition-human form central to michelangelos
- art-center of ceiling shows depiction of the creation of adam best known
- composition in ceiling-show everything through human form-didn’t think anything
- else was worth depicting
- -known for painting. Took him four years to do the work from
- 1508-1512. Layout is high renaissance. Illusions creating
- scenes from the old testament.
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- Figure 14-18
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Adam, detail from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
- -The spark of life. Probably his best known composition on
- the ceiling. Shows his tendency to show everything in the human form.
- -michelangelos art-center of ceiling shows depiction of the
- creation of adam best known composition in ceiling-show everything through
- human form-didn’t think anything else was worth depicting
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- Figure 14-22
- Raphael, Madonna della Sedia, 1510-1512
-Rafael-madonna della sedia- known for madonnas
- -City of Venice had different set of qualities regarding
- renaissance-venice more cosmopolitan the female nude was a preferred
- subject-loved drama supernatural effects of light
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- Figure 14-23
- Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
- -Titian-venus of urbino-elegant beautiful reclining
- goddess-domesticated her but lots of references to marriage fidelity
- -Very elegant beautiful goddess. He domesticated her.
- Lots of references to marriage, fidelity.
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- FIgure 14-24
- Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotunda (formerly Villa Capra), near Vincenza, Italy, c. 1566-1570
- -Palladio-villa rotunda- even today people read his treatise
- on architecture on ideal proportion to create buildings of beauty, 4 porches or
- porticos- merges greek and roman design
- -24- Design continues to be looked
- to by architectures, designers, etc.
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Figure 14-27 Claus Sluter, The Well of Moses, 1395-1406
- -The well of moses-sluter, produced for wealthy duke of
- burgundy, topped by life sized crucifixion, destroyed during French revolution
- work has realism to characterize northern art-super detailed realism every
- detail of jewelry glass-last to adopt devices of linear perspective nudity
- etc-more esteemed in northern gothic tradition
- -Renaissance in the north is quite different. Produced
- for a very wealthy Duke. Work is by a Dutch artist.
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- Figure 14-28
- Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434.
- -Jan van eyck-fidelty loyalty marriage-typical in northern
- art in contemporary art in their own terms-quality of northern art-subtle
- things in picture dog, peaches, etc
- -use of symbolism. A lot of symbols that indicate the message.
- Shoes have been removed; sacred place. Dog indicate one
- of the important attributes of marriage.
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- Figure 14-31
- Albrecht Durer, The Knight, Death, and the Devil, 1513.
- -Durer-german artist, most famous artist of his time in
- Europe produced in form of book-circulated quite well known famous-series of
- apocaluptic visions, engravings, night death and devil-characteristic of north
- imagination-gives them quality of reality
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Figure 14-34 Matthias Grunewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece (closed), Crucifixion (center panel, 1510-1515
- Crucifixion-reformation first challenges to catholic
- church-practices brought to question resulted in a lot of religious images
- –grusome gory realism-good example of gruesome gross realism, northern artists
- delight in doing-great contrast to Italian art more beautiful elegant way
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- Figure 14-36
- Hieronymus Bosch, triptych of The Garden of Earthly Delights, Creation of Eve (left wing), The Garden of Earthly Delights (center panel), Hell (right wing) 1505-1510
- -bosch-garden of earthly
- delights-values order vs chaos insanity
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Extra info
- -impasto-thick application of paint
- -impasto-thick application of paint
- -sfumato-lighting Leonardo invented
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